temenos

American  

[tem-uh-nahs] / ˈtɛm əˌnɑs /

noun

temenoi, plural temene plural

1. Greek Antiquity. a sacred piece of ground, especially the site of a temple or the grounds immediately surrounding it.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• temene
  plural
• temenoi
  plural

Example Sentences

These remote fields they are supposed to hold in perpetuity, apart from the temenos, which, in Mr. Ridgeway's opinion, reverted, on the death of each holder, to the community, save where kingship was hereditary.

From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew

It formed a spacious court about the temple, a sacred temenos as the Greeks would have called it, a haram as a modern Oriental would say.

From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir

The figure is painted white with a red stripe down each side.—From the temenos of Apollo.

From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.

Thus the north porch gave admission to a temenos, but not according to present theory to the eastern cella of Athena.

From Problems in Periclean Buildings by Elderkin, G. W. (George Wicker)

A great temenos was laid out enclosing a much larger area, and the temple itself was about three times the earlier size.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg